Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!eastick Newsgroups: news.misc From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet Message-ID: <1989Dec22.094536.17286@me.toronto.edu> Keywords: The wholesale capturing of Usenet by GEnie Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering References: <946@crash.cts.com> <1989Dec21.000041.6034@ns.network.com> <1989Dec21.020140.24067@athena.mit.edu> <6577@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <7398@ficc.uu.net> Date: 22 Dec 89 14:45:36 GMT peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >Frankly, given the quality of messages that *have* been gatewayed into Usenet >from Fidonet and other BBS-type operations, >I'm glad they're being impolite and unneighborly and not responding in kind. >I'm afraid they'd be like that unwanted houseguest that never leaves. >(not that ALL the fido folks are bad, it's just that the fido s/n ratio is > even lower than Usenet) Good point. Agreed. -- Doug Eastick UUCP: uunet!utai!me!eastick Mechanical Engineering eastick@me.utoronto.ca